Hi, I'm Shane. Engineer, leader, husband, dad, kabob enthusiast. This is kebab-case, a blend of thoughts on tech, life, and lessons I think are worth remembering.

Latest Bites

• Amazon — I would like to see the experiment results for this. Six more reviews…for a joke?

  Posted on:17 Mar 2026 at 12:28 AM

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• DIY tip: If your shower suddenly gets inconsistently lukewarm, the problem might be a stuck pressure-balance cartridge in the shower valve. Pull the cartridge (5 min), soak it in white vinegar for ~30 min to dissolve mineral buildup, rinse it, and reinstall. It can restore things without needing to buy any replacements.

  Took me a decent amount of time diagnosing with a meat thermometer to figure this out!

  Posted on:15 Mar 2026 at 7:40 PM

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• Currently using ntfy.sh as a post completion hook with Claude for this.

  Posted on:15 Mar 2026 at 11:06 AM

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Previous Morsels

• When platform switching costs approach zero

  Switching costs are becoming negligible. I migrated a full-stack bot from Replit to Cloudflare in one day with Claude Code.

  Posted on:28 Feb 2026

• Adding energy monitoring to the smart home stack

  How I set up full energy monitoring in Home Assistant with solar, battery, water, and gas tracking

  Posted on:23 Feb 2026

• Smart home stack

  The tech used to power my smart home setup

  Posted on:18 Feb 2024

  Updated:

  Posted on:22 Feb 2026

• MDX, Next.js, and image handling

  A short & technical code walkthrough for auto-sizing images with Next.js and MDX

  Posted on:30 Oct 2023